Exploration Crossword

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Across
  1. 3. city and the surrounding area
  2. 4. first explorer to sail around the world
  3. 5. Native Americans who lived in the Andes Mountains
  4. 7. agreement between nations about peace or trade
  5. 9. calculates the position of the sun
  6. 14. invented by the Chinese and later weaponized
  7. 15. The island actually discovered by Columbus
  8. 16. allowed passage to Asia over land
Down
  1. 1. First country to send explorers overseas
  2. 2. map maker
  3. 6. navigational tool also invented by the Chinese
  4. 7. capital city of the Aztec Empire
  5. 8. the skill of controlling the course of a ship
  6. 10. group of lands ruled by one conquering nation
  7. 11. Ali Well know leader of the Soninke people
  8. 12. a king or queen
  9. 13. period of scientific innovation in Europe